Are you embarassed by it? Or is there still elements of it you enjoy?

I've been diving into my past and digging up old tracks I remember enjoying and seeing if the spark is still there. In a lot of cases it is, although often because it has been over a decade since I've heard it at all and it has a nice element of newness to it.

I was quite late getting into music. In primary school (until year 7) I remember very little of my music tastes. Mum and Dad were into John Farnham, Little River Band (same deal), ABBA. I distinctly remember hearing Money playing while playing outside. I remember me and my Pound Puppy howling along to You're The Voice.

I don't remember actually enjoying music until around Year 7 when I would borrow 100% Hits compilation CDs from the video store and tape my favourite songs. There is a period from around Year 7 to Year 9 when I was in a bliss of ignorance, listening only to the popular pop/dance tracks of the times.

In Year 10, while on a trip overseas, I discovered rock and metal. Before I left I taped the radio (Triple J? Probably Triple M) for 90 minutes so I'd have something new to listen to. On that tape was Nirvana, Guns 'n' Roses and Metallica (Wherever I May Roam). Loved it. Within a year I hated "techno" and dance and threw away my past.

I've been putting together a CD of that period of time between Year 7 and 9 to torture my friends. 80s compilations have come in handy, although there is a serious lack of "late 80s to early 90s" compilations. It's either mid 80s or mid 90s it seems. Second hand stores have been a great help.

It's disturbing how much of my early music taste I can pin down to specific movies with that song in the soundtrack. The 80s was a goldmine of great movie songs.

It's also very hard, especially with 80s tracks, to pin down if I actually enjoyed this song when I was a kid, or if I've just had it inserted into my past by overplaying at parties. I'm trying to only stick to tracks I specifically remember liking as a kid. It's hard. So many of these tracks SUCK.

If we had iTunes in Australia I'd have bought probably 10 tracks in an instant. Assuming they had them. Destra Music didn't.